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Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
452 Seiten
Englisch
Princeton University Presserschienen am06.06.1993
Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, this book explores the concerns such as: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.mehr

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KlappentextTracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, this book explores the concerns such as: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-02468-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr1993
Erscheinungsdatum06.06.1993
Seiten452 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 26 mm
Gewicht729 g
Artikel-Nr.12085127

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword (1993)PrefaceIntroduction: Purpose and Method31Sermo Humilis25Excursus: Gloria Passionis672Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages833Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime1814The Western Public and Its Language235Abbreviations341List of Works Cited343General Index373Index of Latin Words389Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach391Biographical Note407mehr
Kritik
Auerbach magically relates the story of Christian transformation of the ... styles of classical pagan antiquity with the lowly style accepted as standard in the Middle Ages until the reemergence of the sublime style through Dante's Divine Comedy... The Virginia Quarterly Review This book, like [Mimesis], is necessary reading... [Its] penetration of the Western public and its language is both subtle and powerful... The existence and the delights of his book and of the lifework it completed are an enormous beacon burning against despair. The Times Literary Supplementmehr